Doesn't look like a very visually stunning building though.
Pixar names HQ after Steve Jobs
Pixar, the computer animation company founded by George Lucas and sold to Steve Jobs - who later sold his company to Disney, as George has just done with his - has renamed its main office block after its rescuer. To be fair to Pixar, it’s an appropriate tribute. Jobs’ money kept the company in business, allowing it to continue …
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Wednesday 7th November 2012 16:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: and be a cube
>inappropriate materials?
I was under the impression that many shops have glass fronts... something to do with letting shoppers see what you're selling.
>start falling apart far too early
Links please? The only example I've heard reported is the broken Apple Store window that was broken when a woman walked into it...
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Wednesday 7th November 2012 18:00 GMT Dave 126
Re: Truth or fiction?
Fiction: Jobs bought Pixar for its hardware division, which released its first product months after Jobs bought it. The Pixar Image Computer sold for $135,000 in 1986, but it also required a $35,000 companion workstation, aimed at high end scientific and medical applications (3D medical scanning, for example)- by comparison, the first NeXT computer was sold in 1989 for $6,500, aimed at high-end mainstream applications and development.
Pixar sold hundreds of machines (potential buyers thought they'd give Moore's Law a couple more years), NeXT sold tens of thousands.
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Thursday 8th November 2012 13:32 GMT M7S
The apple (tm) never falls far from the tree.
It's appropriate to name this building after SJ. Apple (according to other stories currently on El Reg) ignore everyone else's IP but moan about people allegedly ignoring theirs.
Didn't Pixar get told off a while back over their film featuring a certain desk lamp, having lifted the design from some scandinavian company?